Press

July 2015

Erin Neffas a hopped-up, hormonal schoolboy were among the cast’s other standouts.

– Joshua Kosman July 2015

July 2015,

‘San Francisco Opera Choristers Virginia Pluth and Erin Neff were the bridesmaids for the Marriage of Figaro and Susanna, demonstrating that members of the opera chorus, led by Ian Robertson, can and do perform solo roles with distinction.’

–Opera Warhorses

January 2015

Among individual musician performances, mezzo Erin Neff and pianist Natal’ya Feygina were outstanding in the Kurt Weill score for the pas de deux of Christopher Wheeldon‘s “There Where She Loved”

Janos Gereben, SF Examiner, January 23rd 2015

“Mezzo-soprano Erin Neff was a vibrant Octavia, all spurned grandeur and wounded nobility….”

Review from the Huffington Post of Installation at Culver Center for the Arts “Tahquitz”

“Tahquitz, composed of several disparate devices (machines, projections, objects, photographs, documents, sound), dissolved into its expansive host space, leaving a sum of parts more than a cohesive environment. But each part was captivating in and of itself, and as each was taken in – the storytelling, the linguistic breakdown, the evocative object hung from the ceiling, the sound of soprano (and collaborator) Erin Neff singing her composition based on Cahuilla cantillation – the mind put together a conceptual whole.”

“The Valley of Ashes marital disaster was brilliantly sung by mezzo-soprano Erin Neff as Myrtle and the Caliban-like Bojan Knezevic as George. Their scenes were the few that provided opportunities for passion at a true operatic intensity, and they played them to the hilt.”

“Her voice rings with a subtle delicacy and clarity in the trouser role as the lovesick page Cherubino. Neff poignantly renders her love songs, leavening the opera with innocent airs and the hopes and idealism of teen love.”

Tod Rasmussen, The Reporter

“Erin Neff, adept at comedy, is also a captivating singer…’Voi che sapete’ is especially touching and funny.”

“…striking, powerful voice in Erin Neff…Neff sang of a Gypsy’s life being ‘moved along and hunted off.’ Her throaty mezzo-soprano voice was perfect, tinged with a bit of mischievousness, to seduce the farm boy.”

Alban Berg ‘Sieben Fruher Lieder

‘”With poised radiance and an immediate ability to gather her listeners from concert hall chair to a musical portal of cathedral and watercolor, mezzo soprano Erin Neff climbed inward along the melodic lines of “Sieben Fruhe Lieder” (Alban Berg) and taught her listeners, luxury.”